A GARDEN DIARY 209 
about to involve, it and everyone else. Happily, 
we are made so, just as surely as the kitten is 
so made. We catch at straws, and in nine cases 
out of ten the straw saves us. Were it not for 
this same blessed prerogative of being interested 
in trifles, what, one sometimes asks oneself, would 
become of all our poor wits? or where on a 
journey so full of loss and sorrow, shock and 
trouble, would they have got to before the final 
goal is reached ? 
